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Aryballos with Roosters and Rosettes
(Ancient Greece )
This early Corinthian black-figure aryballos displays two roosters and rosettes. Aryballoi contained expensive perfume or oil that could be dispensed slowly through the narrow neck and mouth.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Greece, Corinth (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 5 x Diam: 4 1/4 in. (12.7 x 10.8 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
48.2